Not sure if this has been posted similar but didn't see anything so here we go.
I have a USB 3.0 7200rpm External Hard Drive which at 3TB was more than I'd need, so the plan seemed simple enough go into disk utility, partition the Drive then go into windows and format the smaller of the partitions (1tb) into NTFS for FRAPS to capture to.
This was where I started to have problems. On the Mac side nothing went wrong, the partition worked fine, however when I rebooted into my windows partition any attempt to format the drive would result in the drive disconnecting and immediately reconnecting (effectively stopping everything, making the format fail and then windows popping up to say a drive had been attached). Befuddled I eventually got around the problem by attaching the Hdd to a desktop PC and Formating there (which worked first time no problem).
Then set FRAPS up to capture to the drive loaded up Dragon Age II as a game that wasnt too heavy to test with but within a few minutes of starting to record the Hard Drive would again be disconnected and I'd get the same pop up as if the drive had just been attached (this would also minimize the game... so very annoying lol).
I checked power settings to make sure the USB wasn't been switched off or anything and changed that, I also attempted to capture at a lower resolution neither of these fixed the problem. Eventually I thought my drive might be faulty so went back across to OS X and set it to use the other partition as a time machine back up to see if it would be disconnected - 150GB or thereabouts was backed up onto the drive without a hitch, so I now feel 80-90% certain that the HDD isnt the problem.. anyone have any suggestions on what the problem might be? I suspect a driver issue, if so is there any way to resolve it?
P.S I did not buy the rMBP to game, it was merely something I wanted to do on the side. I needed a portable machine capable of running FCP, AE, PS etc
I have a USB 3.0 7200rpm External Hard Drive which at 3TB was more than I'd need, so the plan seemed simple enough go into disk utility, partition the Drive then go into windows and format the smaller of the partitions (1tb) into NTFS for FRAPS to capture to.
This was where I started to have problems. On the Mac side nothing went wrong, the partition worked fine, however when I rebooted into my windows partition any attempt to format the drive would result in the drive disconnecting and immediately reconnecting (effectively stopping everything, making the format fail and then windows popping up to say a drive had been attached). Befuddled I eventually got around the problem by attaching the Hdd to a desktop PC and Formating there (which worked first time no problem).
Then set FRAPS up to capture to the drive loaded up Dragon Age II as a game that wasnt too heavy to test with but within a few minutes of starting to record the Hard Drive would again be disconnected and I'd get the same pop up as if the drive had just been attached (this would also minimize the game... so very annoying lol).
I checked power settings to make sure the USB wasn't been switched off or anything and changed that, I also attempted to capture at a lower resolution neither of these fixed the problem. Eventually I thought my drive might be faulty so went back across to OS X and set it to use the other partition as a time machine back up to see if it would be disconnected - 150GB or thereabouts was backed up onto the drive without a hitch, so I now feel 80-90% certain that the HDD isnt the problem.. anyone have any suggestions on what the problem might be? I suspect a driver issue, if so is there any way to resolve it?
P.S I did not buy the rMBP to game, it was merely something I wanted to do on the side. I needed a portable machine capable of running FCP, AE, PS etc